Guildhall Art Gallery and Roman Amphitheatre

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Guildhall Art Gallery

Until Wed Mar 6

The Cost of Living, British Museum, Bone Gladiator from Roman Britain (1st-4th centuries AD) © The Trustees of the British Museum

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Time Out says

Wed Sep 14 2011

The City of London’s Guildhall Art Gallery has been rehung with a focus on nineteenth-century paintings by Constable, Leighton, Millais, Rossetti, Holman Hunt and others. Downstairs, there are absorbing paintings of London from the 1660s to the present, from moving depictions of war and melancholy working streets to the likes of the grandiloquent (and never-enacted) George Dance plan for a new London Bridge. The collection’s centrepiece is the massive ‘Siege of Gibraltar’ by John Copley, which spans two entire storeys of the purpose-built gallery. A sub-basement contains the scant remains of London’s 6,000-seater Roman amphitheatre, built around AD70; Tron-like figures and crowd sound effects give a quaint inkling of scale.

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Guildhall Art Gallery

Guildhall Yard, off Gresham St, EC2V 5AE Hide map/details

Wed Jan 23

gallery & amphitheatre free; special exhibitions admission charge applies.

Address:
Guildhall Art Gallery Guildhall Yard
off Gresham St
City
London
EC2V 5AE

Phone:
020 7332 3700
Website:
www.guildhallartgallery.cityoflondon.gov.uk
Opening hours:
10am-5pm Mon-Sat, 12noon-4pm Sun
Transport:
Tube: Bank
Price:
Temporary exhibitions £5, concs £3
Map
1. Guildhall Art Gallery
  - Guildhall Yard
    off Gresham St
    City
    London
    EC2V 5AE
  - 020 7332 3700
  - www.guildhallartgallery.cityoflondon.gov.uk
  - 51.515365,-0.091873